Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to confirm that he will allow the Dáil to debate the terms of reference and, maybe, take recommendations in that regard before agreeing them in their entirety. Is the repurposing of the PSO agreed? If not, the Minister cannot say with any definitive value that the 300 jobs he mentioned are associated with it can be committed to. Does the Minister accept that if he does not bring in new legislation to allow the licensing of the harvesting of horticultural peat by the EPA, there is a huge threat to many more jobs outside Bord na Móna and will he confirm that the rehabilitation programme that is envisaged does not contravene the legislation which the High Court ruled in favour of, which was taken against the statutory instruments brought in by the Minister earlier this year?

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